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thank you the first item we have on the
agenda tonight is the adoption of the
agenda Tom been moved and seconded to
adopt the agenda there are there any
Corrections or additions to agenda
anybody wishes to make if not all those
in favor say aye
aye opposed no motion carried
next we have the approval of previous
council minutes move to approve the
minutes of November 12th and November
19th second moved and seconded to
approve the minutes of November 12th and
November 19th are there any additions or
Corrections to those minutes if not all
in favor say aye
opposed motion carried next we have
authorization to pay bills mr. Marek
thank youi pay bills in the amount of 1
million two hundred thirty five thousand
seven hundred eighty dollars seven cents
large chunk of that seven hundred fifty
five thousand was for the wastewater
treatment plant
is there a second okay it's been moved
and seconded to pay bills in the amount
of 1 million two hundred thirty five
thousand seven hundred eighty dollars
and seven cents there any questions on
any of the bills if not please cast your
ballots all voting YES motion carried
unanimously okay being about 703 I'm
going to open the public hearing this is
a change in our Charter ordinance to
make the City Attorney an appointed
position this would take an effect in
two years yes about two years okay is
there anybody that wishes to be heard on
that if not I'll close the public
hearing
move on is there anybody in the audience
who wishes to address the council on any
issues yes will you please come on up
state your name address and
good evening everyone Brad Graham and
about a 1928 Pershing Road I'd like to
address the noise and a speed issue once
again on Pershing Road it's getting very
disturbing that you got semis dump truck
school buses cars trucks load exhaust
it's gotten to the point where it's
scaring the birds the squirrels and the
animals
I can hear dump trucks all the way from
Oshkosh straight or far they're coming
and all the way out from the high school
there's times where we got to have to
tell there's 24 or 26 to hear it it's
getting very disturbing out there that
we got to have this noise all the time
it's a racetrack millander before school
after school I was told at the end of
the school year the school board and a
police department we're gonna address it
with the school bus drivers to do the
speed limit that's not happening you
have city vehicles and I've been told by
city employees the speed limits 35 out
there it's not it's 25 so I would like a
noise abatement done in the whole city
to determine what the noise levels are
and I encourage anybody watching us and
listening to start calling and and
making complaints about this there's a
lot of other places in the London that
have loud noises the street here for
example I go to Dave to have my
lawnmower taken care of you can't even
talk because of the noise
we're persians been like this for years
and something needs to be done and i'm
requesting some action be taken and
let's get that speed reduced élitaire
let's get the noise don't
I mean there's times when you want to
get out of your driveway you can I back
in because my elderly father so he
doesn't have to walk that far I've got
people trying to pass you I mean I get
don't trucks coming up behind me wanting
to pass on the right
so I'm asking something to get done out
there and within this city it's you know
I just it's sick and tiring that
everyday you got to listen to this and
watch this
okay so I wish that youse guys would do
something and get something done out
there okay I'll tell you what I will ask
our Public Works Chairman to put it on
the agenda next month Public Works
Committee will discuss it see what there
possibly can be done about it as the
police chief for his input or if you
have any comment and we learn extra
enforcement this last summer - for
almost probably three to four months we
have a speed trailer out there also then
hopefully that we do continue then do
enforcement but we can't be out there 24
hours a day and we've talked about this
brand calling tonight four or five times
but as far as the loud noise of the
trucks and sometimes and we've been
taught they're monitored them the louder
the vehicle and bigger the vehicles they
traveled on the road accurately faster
than what they actually are
so if we take all the stuff into
consideration roley's Fernie not a
traffic enforcement there I guarantee
you see squads go ahead and ask I'm
pretty quite often it's just
throughout the city that it can't be
there all the time but as a hawk mr.
Zarb auto we can Haskell that we will
run extra enforcement out there and
start as we usually do a lot of times
only last for so long but most of the
tractor we phone works between the speed
limits of the upper 20s and lower 30s
and we can do another study if the mayor
would like us to kind of see where
they're at but that's been kind of
constant throughout the last few years
we have done this I think of a meeting
with your you and your dad's probably
last 10 years nope so we go out there
we've done extra enforcement but
versions just a main artery into our
city and we're gonna constantly have
truck roll through there because it
doesn't have a truck Road that's how
vehicles get into our city but I guess
when I'm coming when I'm going home well
this Brad I'm gonna cut you off this is
something that needs to be discussed
that committee level not at college the
level because there's no action we can
take on it anyway
and it needs to be discussed Public
Works meeting I think we can hand handle
it there it's the first Tuesday at the
month or excuse me first Monday of the
month at 4:30 in the afternoon
okay great I'd like to be there because
I gotta say something's got to get done
yeah well the fact also is it's county
trunk road and there's not a lot we can
do that to change County regulations
either so it's a joint Road it's a city
street but it's also County truck Road
so there's 25 from the high school
yup these guys are just we're we're well
aware of that okay when I'm doing 25 I
got dump trucks Carling up by me yeah so
like I said this is to be addressed at
the committee level okay I'd like to get
this taken care of once and for all
okay thank you is there anybody else
that would like to address the council
okay moving on to standing and special
committees first of all Board of Public
Works mr. Barrington sort of plug works
met on Monday December 2nd at 4:30
meeting seconded to adopt agenda motion
carried
wastewater treatment plant facility
update where no questions are concerned
we went over the amount of phosphates
and all the other things coming in they
were in the normal range the next item
we discussed using salt brine for
anti-icing needs committee discuss the
use of salt brine for anti-icing needs
pre-wetting of salt and pretreatment of
the roads before the snow falls
mr. hearth explained that he and staff
are researching the cost and anticipate
anticipated benefits for brian
applications no motion was made at this
time the next was a discussion for
applying to multimodal
local supplementary program MLS program
is a one-time seventy five million
dollar transportation grant and that
wants by governor Reavers this grant is
advertised as 90/10 split and
applications are coming due in September
of 2019
Chad explained that the city will apply
for a grant for reconstruction of
oshkosh Street from Wolf River Avenue to
Pershing Road it is anticipated that the
awarded process will be very competitive
and and the application ask if the
applicant is willing to accept a local
grant amount I think that should be
lower grant amount for funding the
committee agreed that it will make the
application more attractive however to
define in the narrative how low of a
grant we can accept before the local
match becomes too high for the city to
afford at this time if the city is
offered an MLS award in the future the
board will determine at that time if
they will accept the grant no motion on
this the next was addition of a stump
grinder attachment to the capital
equipment
2020 schedule due to the process to
identify FEMA eligible funding from the
July storm staff was informed that stump
training is generally not applicable for
any type of FEMA reimbursement and the
city is responsible for all stump
grinding costs there is an estimated
three hundred and sixty-five stumps that
need grinding in the park and along the
city streets which would cost upwards of
eleven thousand dollars this leads to
the question if it would be beneficial
to purchase a stump grinding attachment
for this city's skid steer rather than
contract out Chad and staff are
researching options but initially it
appears the city could purchase a
grinder that at or near the cost of
outter less the cost of eleven thousand
Chad pointed out that the city's current
its skid steer is hold and on scheduled
for replacement next year which a more
powerful one would be beneficial when
replacement occurs to power these types
of attachment motion made and seconded
to add the cost of a new stump grinder
attachment to the capital project
capital equipment projects for the 2020
schedule motion carried by all there was
nothing in the directors report other
matters not identified next month's
agenda items would be discussion a
possible adoption of ATV UTV routes
within the city of New London and the
way we're talking we'll probably add
this of Pershing Road next month no
further business a motion was made and
seconded to adjourn the meeting at 5:33
that's all I have tonight your honor
thank you mr. Barrington next we move on
to Finance and personnel mr. Morra
finance and Personnel Committee met on
Wednesday December 4th at 4:30 p.m. the
council chambers motion was
made by Barrington and seconded by
McDonald Rebecca recommend a council
approval of the lists of Elections
inspectors for a two-year term including
a change from Richard Potts to since it
Cynthia Watts motion carried eight zero
mark abstain as his wife is on the list
finance director Judy
Radke discussed the adjustment to the
financial records for deposit of funds
into a fraudulent account for payroll
she and Jill Moss Barrow human resource
coordinator discussed the process of
reporting the incident to city officials
the police department and the insurance
company mrs. Brad key then worked with
the auditors on a debit portion of the
adjustment to the general fund as it
anticipated that those payroll funds are
more likely than not to be recovered a
motion was made by fasciae and second by
Barrington to post the adjustment is
recommended by the auditors motion
carried 9-0 finance director at key
shared the information on out eme County
sales tax revenue sharing the amount for
the city of new line is estimated at
twenty one thousand three hundred sixty
eight dollars mrs. Radke is in process
of understanding the legality of
receiving this payment finance director
Judy rocky reviewed the retirement
schedule designated funds that have been
set aside for payment of those
obligations comparing the funds set
aside each year and the estimated
retirement schedule it appears that
there are adequate funds being set aside
each year to meet the city's future
obligations the committee will continue
to review this topic on an annual basis
finance director Akira viewed the
September financial reports
administrator reports and financial
finance directors reports were discussed
there would be no public comment or
further business the meeting adjourn at
5:33 p.m. the next regularly scheduled
Finance Committee meeting will be held
in the council chambers on January 8 at
4:30 p.m.
whereas aussolas special finance and
Personnel Committee held on Tuesday
November 12th at 6:30 p.m. in the
council chambers mr. mark asked the
librarian dan hunt what they were
specifically needed from the city
regarding a commitment towards the
Riverfront Development property unstated
that a commitment from the city stating
that the city will apply for the Weda 8
grant and will put up the 1.2 million
towards the development if the grant
isn't received in the city is not on the
hook for the money the Friends of the
library group has already raised or 1
million dollars in order to continue
fundraising they need the city to be
invested in this project success also
discussed was the floodplain the flood
fringe in the TIF district that could be
created
motion by fasciae seconded by sog to
have the city drafted letter a
commitment to pour the Downtown
Development project to move forward
motion carried 9-0 the rule this will be
a finance and council agenda item for
december meetings there be no further
public comment or further business the
meeting adjourned
at 6:15 p.m. then I would move that we
adopt the ordinance to make the city
attorney an appointed position this is
the second reading second been moved and
seconded to adopt the ordinance making
the city attorney an appointed position
seconds the second final reading there
any questions or comments on that item
if not please cast your ballots
all voting yes motion carried Emily if
we move we adopt I move we approve the
list of election officials for a term of
Jan we first 2020 through December 31st
2021 it's been moved and seconded to a
person approved the list of election
officials the term of 2001 excuse me
January 1 2020 through December 31st 221
any questions on those please cast your
ballots
motion carried nine to one morick
abstaining I think his wife is on the
list yes okay and I move we approve the
license list been moved and seconded to
approve the license list is presented
there any questions or concerns on that
all those in favor say aye aye opposed
motion carried is that it mr. Morris
that's it okay thank you next we move to
Park and Recreation mr. beasts on you
your honor
Darkman rec committee met on Tuesday
December 3rd meeting was called order at
4:30 to Holloman heard her moved to
approve the agenda seconded by alderman
pinched what was carried by all public
comment revelant two items on the agenda
there was none present discuss and
possible recommendation regarding a fee
for profit clubs using the London's
baseball diamonds
Chad her that he briefed discussion
involving how the department currently
schedules clubs and teams for games and
practices on baseball and softball
diamonds the committee also talked about
local clubs and donations they have made
to the city in the form of capital
improvements chad earth will invite the
users of the ball diamonds to the
January meeting to assist in further
discussion on this item no motion was
made on this item review of the
emergency slow Norway coordinates to
limit how long boys will be placed in
the river in the voting season at last
month's committee meeting a request was
made to look into defining how late into
the boating season
Slone awake boys would be placed in the
river after researching the topic it was
determined that the municipal code
already defines this timeline as boys
shall be placed on pres nearest
practicals to March 1st and removed by
November 1st each year no motion was
made on this item updates regarding the
creation and the adoption with title six
plan chad hart provided he brief history
of the grant that has been acquired to
subsidize the purchase of the city's
senior transit buses
this grant is filtered through the state
vot from federal and has several strings
attached one requirement for grant
recipients to have titled
six plan adopted chad hearth reviewed
some of the components of the title six
plan and stated that he has contacted
high school marketing class to assist in
creating some of these components no
motion was made on this item discussion
regarding electronic ticket machines at
boat launches the committee discussed
some benefits of installing electronic
ticket machines at the cities boat
launches chairman b saw pulled a few
other communities with these machines
and many reported increases in revenue
over traditional honor system
applications chad hearth and visa will
report on working which system
researching which system would best fit
our needs and submit a proposal for
purchase at a future meeting no motion
was made in this item directors report
memo there was no questions or concerns
and the directors memo report Chairman's
report none was identified committee
members report none were identified next
month's agenda items private clubs
utilizing ball diamonds and updates
regarding the title six motion was made
moved to adjourn adjourned at 5:15
motion was carried by all that's all I
have your honor
thank you mister B so next we moved to
Planning Commission mr. steinorth thank
you your honor the Planning Commission
met on December 5th 2019 the agenda was
amended to adapt with the change to item
5 the Schultz annexation from certified
survey map approval to annexation map
carried 6 0 minutes of the October 31st
2019 Planning Commission minutes were
amended with a change in the vote of
previous minutes to 6 tho and a spelling
correction on the word
flat also carried six so the proposed
annexation map for the Schultz
annexation was discussed was moved and
seconded to recommend approval of the
Schultz annexation map to the council
carried 6-0 certified survey map
approval of the Riley property property
for Brad and ranae Riley property
combining two adjacent Lots into one lot
was discussed was moved and seconded to
approve the certified survey map as
presented also carries six zero
regarding the kissed bottling company
zoning but committee discussed the issue
of kiss bottling company zoning along
with a recommendation from the building
inspector that offered two options for
dealing with the problem motion was made
in seconded to accept the recommendation
of the building inspector and recommend
to council to amend ordinance 17.11.2013
map the proposed certified survey map
for the vacation of State Street in taft
park and combining the taft park and
street vacation into one parcel was
discussed it was moved and seconded to
approve the taft park certified survey
map also carried 6-0 the committee then
discussed a recommendation from city
attorney lou otters to revise ordinance
1706 to take into account the new state
statue act sixty seven regarding
conditional use permits motion was made
in the secondary Mecca recommend to
council changes as presented carried 6-0
in other matters a reminder that our
December meeting will be held on January
2nd if necessary due to the New Year's
holiday and our meeting adjourned at
5:35 p.m. I would have moved to approve
the annexation of the Schultz property
second it's been moved and seconded to
approve the annexation map for the
Schultz property there any question on
that item discussion if not please cast
your ballots all voting yes motion
carried
and that's all I have your honor thank
you mm-hmm Thank You mr. Stein whores
next we moved to Economic Development
Committee mr. Morra economic development
committee met on Tuesday November 26 at
4:30 p.m. as Newland a city council
chambers the October 29th minutes were
approved Lin April from sisa 8 give a
presentation on the inspire program
discovered an academic and Career
Planning program available at the school
says subscribe the company called zexal
offers an interactive way for students
to research careers and develop a plan
on how to reach those career goals blue
Leone gave an update on the riverfront
development project stating - had been
pushed back one year to allow for a
better plan regarding the TIF district
and the flood fridge management the six
acres at the riverfront and an empty lot
across the library are part of this plan
the utilities and the Public Works are
working on the infrastructure needs to
get a cost on those items by this time
next year all these things should be
aligned and application for funds
finished Leonie reported info from other
communities in regard to how they are
assisting developers in encouraging
growth the committee's goals for tonight
2019 or does
there were suggestions on revisions
priorities were discussed namely
retaining current businesses and
communication lines of those businesses
being top priority also discussed with
the committee's expectations for reports
on a monthly and quarterly basis
April kopetsky from the chamber her
business updates nail and spa hope in
his second location at 1275 North
Shawano street offering manicures and
pedicures super lube is now take five
oil change opening soon is no business
innovative industrial staffing
incorporated and also the mark
Christopher law office at 209 North
Water Street for future activities and
speakers we hope to speak to Becky Hunt
from Rebecca job centre and Oliver
buckless regarding advancing AI
Wisconsin under public comment Scott
black spoke about the great conversation
regarding inspire program Terri Wagner
recommended having Oliver Bose speak
about the AI program he also spoke about
the city working in collaboration with
other cities to fill resource needs
citing shared revenue services help all
and the meeting adjourned at 5:32 p.m.
you also have in your packet report from
alpaca County Economic Development
Corporation and that's all I have for
economic development your honor okay
thank you
you also have minutes from the light
minutes and reports from library museum
police and fire Commission Utility
Commission cemetery superintendent
there's any questions or comments on any
of those okay if not we'll move along to
reports of officers I guess I'm up first
I am going to make the appointment of
Mike pinch to the cemetery Commission
and also want a big thank you to the
chamber and all the people that purchase
faded and helped in the holiday
celebration last Friday
very nice very successful really neat
thing for the community and also to
everybody out there have a very Merry
Christmas our administrator Lou thank
you your honor
I didn't you have my report there's just
a couple things I want to point out I
wanted to say good job to ginger
Michelle and Jane for the Parks and Rec
reindeer run there were several people
that ran I had myself and my family ran
and it was quite cold but they kept
cheering everybody on to complete it so
thank you for putting on a good reindeer
run met with representative Kevin
Peterson over several issues we spent a
good about hour and a half talking about
it and he took some notes and took it
back to Madison and Maple Creek I
assisted Maple Creek and filing their
multimodal
application although we're helping Maple
Creek do it what it is is if they get
that grant there's a portion that the
city would actually have to take care of
and that would help reduce that cost so
it's helping them help us just be
careful not have to take care of if we
choose to take it really correct yeah
and that's all okay thank you
next our utility manager mr. Thompson
thank you your honor
a well for project or well eight
whichever one you want to call it on
Oscar Street we were able to drill that
well since the last council meeting and
develop it the crew that did they
actually get up to a thousand gallons
minute production and we will not run it
at that in the future but that's being
done tomorrow morning that well building
itself will be arriving and be set
tomorrow morning and we'll have some
concrete work to do some piping but
hopefully by mid to end of February that
should be back into service we're
looking forward to hanging that done
Friday night we also had a service wire
failure at one of the underground and
one of the homes previously they put
some fencing in and hit it with a shovel
and
it looks like it it failed so we'll be
dealing we got temporary take care of
that
there's a Precog meeting tomorrow on
Thursday to discuss the London acre or
subdivision a pre con for the utilities
that need to go into there we're looking
forward to doing that I will be
attending W PPI executive committee
meeting on Wednesday afternoon and the
Board of Directors meeting on Thursday
we did have one of our employees give us
a notice of resignation he's gonna go to
college work he said he's utility crews
not what he thought it would be and he's
gonna go on to college
other things that we've been working on
took a while to get but you have now
have available to our residents with
customers it's called my meter account
it's now that we have all the ami meters
in you can actually get that reset up we
had about 1300 people I believe that
paid online pay spaces some network now
you can reset your account up in my
meter Creek and you'll be able to
receive your utility bills
electronically we'll pay them
electronically and you'll be able to
monitor your house so we only have 168
today or which started last on the 5th
of December so forward to having that
out there as a tool I hope the citizens
enjoy it we continue to give our
Christmas lights away to to the end of
the year and as a result of that we you
need three non-perishable food items to
get a string of lights you get up to two
sets of lights gets me down as long as
we're talking about that I do have a
check for the community cupboard for
$1000 and I also have another check to
the city of new one and for our pilot
payment for seven hundred eight thousand
two hundred fifty one dollars and I will
give you at the end of the meeting thank
you those numbers we like to hear thank
you Steve we appreciate it
next we have our director public
services mr. hearth
thank Your Honor two quick things
um if anybody out there is looking for
our newest winter spring program guide
that's just been delivered the program
that is out
we delivered it to the local school that
should be in your Thursday folders if
you get that with your students and your
children you can also pick it up at the
pool the library are at the office here
or downloaded online so a lot of these
programs will kick on after the first of
the year so on don't delay and get
caught up in holidays if you're looking
for these programs now's the time to
start thinking about registering and
then secondly on the street side once
again we just want to remind everybody
that with the cold temperatures please
do not discharge your sump pumps into
the street that creates a hazard because
obviously that ice is up we've had
situations where it gets you know
several inches thick before we can find
it or get to it that creates a very
slippery situation or what more commonly
happens is it goes down the curb line to
your neighbors and then they're dealing
with the slippery situation in their
driveway and we get a lot of complaints
that way so please do not discharge in
the street and it is illegal there's
this charge into the sanitary sewer as
well so you're gonna have to you know
discharge it in your backyard until
spring and then you can bring it back
out in the street but we just want to
hit that up front so we're not creating
hazardous situations in the street this
year thank you thank you next we have
chief or chief of police mr. Schluter
Nick your honor we had three
anniversaries Kathie Martin's 12 years
Lisa Taylor nine years and Josh Wilson
18 years I also just want to remind
everyone again about the parking
ordinance during the wintertime make
sure to have your vehicles off the road
from 3im to 6 a.m. or anytime we had a
snow emergency we do not want to write
tickets but please just make sure that
they're off so the street department
gets roads clean which seems like
they've been doing a pretty good job
this year thank you hey thank you
yeah and is there a fire chief here
today no that's unusual okay any other
comments from anybody okay next item we
have is closed session look for motion
so whoo
okay it's been moved to go into closed
session for 1985 1f to receive a report
from IDI read regarding the allegations
of harassment between staff members
I'll please catch your ballots no no no
this is only a report to Council correct
voting YES motion carried
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